Soft switching circuit for IGBTs in high-frequency buck converters using saturable inductors

PESC Record - IEEE Annual Power Electronics Specialists Conference

Volumn 2, Issue , 2004, Pages 1500-1505

  Dallago, E ^a   Passoni, M ^a   Venchi, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; ELECTRIC INDUCTORS; FREQUENCIES; MAGNETOELECTRIC EFFECTS; PRODUCT DESIGN; PULSE WIDTH MODULATION; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION); SWITCHING CIRCUITS; SWITCHING NETWORKS;

CONVERTER DESIGN; LOAD CURRENT; SATURABLE INDUCTORS; ZERO VOLTAGE SWITCHING;

INSULATED GATE BIPOLAR TRANSISTORS;

EID: 8744255647     PISSN: 02759306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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